Q What's odd about the latest defection from North Korea?

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A North Korean former gymnast escaped to the South by climbing up and swinging himself over a three-metrehigh barbed-wire border fence without triggering sensors. Officials were so shocked they asked the man, reported to be in his 20s, to demonstrate how he was able to get over. The 4-km-wide, 248-km-long demilitarized strip is also fortified by landmines and armed sentry posts. The man has asked South Korea for asylum.